Posted by Haseeb Budhani on Fri, 2011-11-04 08:40
You are a key member of a network team managing a critical set of data centers, and are constantly dealing with replication, backup or virtualization related issues across the WAN. You would like to learn more about WAN optimization but simply don’t have time for some slick sales guy to come in and talk about “the importance of WAN optimization solution agility” or “how you can accelerate ALL your applications.” You just want something that addresses the inter-data center WAN issues you are dealing with today and want to ask very specific questions without all the “So when will you have budget for this project?” pressure.
If you live in the SF Bay Area, there are two awesome shows that Infineta will be participating in, where our technical experts will be present to answer all your questions. The events are:
Posted by Ashish Shah on Wed, 2011-10-26 01:55
A large healthcare firm we recently talked to had an upcoming data migration project, where the IT team planned on moving 800TB of data from a to-be-decommissioned data center to a larger data center 1,100 miles away. The WAN connectivity between the two sites consisted of 2x1Gbps MPLS links. The storage and network team concluded that the migration would take four months to complete, making it operationally cost-prohibitive. The network team considered leasing a 10Gbps WAN link, but came to the conclusion that the significantly higher WAN expenditure would in no way guarantee faster migration. Interestingly enough, one-time or periodic migrations are becoming quite common for medium to large enterprises.
Posted by Raj Kanaya on Mon, 2010-09-13 10:54
Earlier, I posted my thoughts around the benefits of pooling resources. The post ended with a short walk down (recent) memory lane, ending with an ovation given to what I call the “front half” of the WAN problem. In this second part, I want to continue where we left off by focusing on what can be called the “back half” of the WAN problem.
